
A bus snakes its way Sunday along the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, which stretches through the Northern Japanese Alps mountain region in Toyama and Nagano prefectures. It's currently an ideal time to see autumn leaves, with plants such as gold birches and rowan trees turning yellow and red on the Midagahara plateau 1,930 meters above sea level. Thanks to warm weather this October, the scenery will last longer than usual. The autumn foliage will gradually descend to the Bijodaira spot, 977 meters above sea level, in around early November.
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